Category Archives: Sunday Shorts

Ishmael Toffee by Roger Smith #WeeklyShorts

October 14, 2012

Weekly Shorts is a new meme started by the CabinGoddess.com. The rules are easy, a short story, an anthology of short stories, a novella, or a quick weekend read that is also short on your wallet!

I got this one free this last week on amazon. Sounds like a good read and at only 97 pages clearly a short one. It’s not free any more unless you have prime in which case what are you waiting for? Go get Ishmael Toffee by Roger Smith now. Rest of you should check it out too it’s less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

HE’S KILLED MORE MEN THAN HE CAN REMEMBER, BUT CAN HE SAVE A CHILD?
Ishmael Toffee’s knife put him behind bars and kept him there for twenty years as a prison gang assassin until he lost his taste for blood. Paroled, he finds himself with no money and no family. And no knife in his hand.

He gets a job as a gardener at the luxurious home of a prominent lawyer and makes an unexpected friend–Cindy, the lawyer’s six-year-old daughter. When Ishmael discovers that Cindy is being raped by her father he must choose: abandon the girl and walk away, or do what he does best . . .

Posted by Jessica ( frellathon ) in Ebooks, Sunday Shorts Tags: Short Stories

Weekly Shorts

October 7, 2012

Weekly Shorts is a new meme started by the CabinGoddess.com. The rules are easy, a short story, an anthology of short stories, a novella, or a quick weekend read that is also short on your wallet!

I was wondering what book I would share in this weeks shorts and then it hit me, well there was no hitting only drooling over a cool cover that is.

Knowing authors online pays off because the one thing you can count on is they get excited about other authors books too. When you see them mention a book it pays to pay attention. Exhibit A.

The cover is cool but then look at the series it’s a part of

These books have me quite fascinated I must admit. These three are available now all nice short under 100 page novellas. Each a hard boiled detective novel set in the 60′s but with horror/supernatural elements thrown in and all written by a different author.

See that one way up top that is going to be the newest. It’s coming out this month and is the forth in the Sam Truman mystery series. Hard boiled pulp with horror cases for the down on his luck inspector to deal with. All short little nibbles of awesome and each one that is available right now is on amazon for 1.99 or less.

Can you say fantastic? I can. Fantastic. See, I don’t lie. lol :p

Adam Cesare is the author of the latest book and I must say I am most intrigued, such an interesting concept not just the subject but the fact that it’s different authors writing each one. I look forward to checking out this series myself and Adams take on Sam Truman.

Catch my Killer by Ed Kurtz

The Last Invasion by Brandon Zuern

Soft Kiss, Hard Death by Tobin Elliott

Bound by Jade by Adam Cesare

Posted by Jessica ( frellathon ) in Books, Ebooks, Sunday Shorts Tags: ebooks, Short Stories

Weekly Shorts

September 30, 2012

Weekly Shorts is a new meme started by the CabinGoddess.com. The rules are easy, a short story, an anthology of short stories, a novella, or a quick weekend read that is also short on your wallet!

So my love Kriss the Cabin Goddess has changed the meme around a bit it’s now Weekly Shorts. As much as I liked it the old way who am I to argue with the host so we have switched.

My selection for this week is one that I feel is a natural choice and sooner or later would have come to share this author, it would be quite remiss not to in fact he being the one to start the big ebook focus.

Throttle a short under 50 page story by Stephen King and Joe Hill is a steal at 99cents. I would like to try it out one day and see what kind of collaboration they came up with.

Posted by Jessica ( frellathon ) in Ebooks, Sunday Shorts Tags: ebooks, Short Stories

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Sunday Shorts

September 23, 2012

Sunday Shorts is a new meme started by the CabinGoddess.com. The rules are easy, a short story, an anthology of short stories, a novella, or a quick weekend read that is also short on your wallet!

I missed last week but I’m back this week with a book that is of great interest to me. I don’t recall how I heard about it originally but it has grabbed my interest in a big way. I want it super bad so way up there on my must get and must read list.

The Wool omnibus is the one I’m really after though you can get the first story in the series for free right now. Its about 56 pages, the omnibus is 550 pages so much longer. The omnibus is running at $5.99 on amazon and the only reason I haven’t purchased it yet is that author Hugh Howey is writing more for the series. I hate the idea of buying it falling in love and then having to wait for the rest so I’m going to be tough and hold out. Til then ohhhhh droolfest.

This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. It is for those who arrived late to the party and who wish to save a dollar or two while picking up the same stories in a single package.

The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. My thanks go out to those reviewers who clamored for more. Without you, none of this would exist. Your demand created this as much as I did.

This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.

Posted by Jessica ( frellathon ) in Books, Ebooks, Sunday Shorts Tags: ebooks, Hugh Howey, Short Stories, Wool

Sunday Shorts

September 9, 2012

Sunday Shorts is a new meme started by the CabinGoddess.com. The rules are easy, a short story, an anthology of short stories, a novella, or a quick weekend read that is also short on your wallet!

Just to be clear Sunday Shorts is simply about finding new short stories be they ones you’ve read and want to share with others or ones you ie. me have heard about and think sound great and want to read sometime down the road.

I’ve found that authors web sites are a great place for short stories. They will post a couple for people to enjoy that way you can sample their work. Another place I’ve found for short stories is online magazines. There are many out there such as Apex Magazine.

From the latest issue number 40 is a story called Sacrifice by Jennifer Pelland